Articles by Total Baroque
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Maurizio CrociJ. S. Bach: Part III of the Clavier-Übung
How can we recover the colours Bach may have imagined at the organ? In his complete recording of Part III of the “Clavier-Übung”, Maurizio Croci draws on the registration indications left by Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, a contemporary of the Cantor. On the Treutmann organ at Grauhof, built in 1737, he offers a fresh reading of one of the great monuments of Bach’s organ music.
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Ensemble Les TimbresCarré d’As: musical portraits of Couperin, Forqueray, Marais and Rameau
What do Couperin, Forqueray, Marais and Rameau reveal about one another when they portray each other in music? With “Carré d’As”, Les Timbres brings together self-portraits, tributes and musical evocations, revealing four distinct personalities behind four of the great names of French Baroque music.
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A Summer of Baroque Opera (7/7)Vivaldi’s “Arsilda, regina di Ponto”
A princess promised to a king who is in fact a queen in disguise, an heir believed to be dead, and a web of thwarted love affairs: in “Arsilda, regina di Ponto”, Vivaldi unfolds a dizzying game of deception and mistaken identity. Led by Lucile Richardot, Olivia Vermeulen and Collegium 1704, this revival restores to the stage one of the most ambitious operas of his early career.
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